You’ve gotta check this out. Looks like an official release. (Thanks to Spewboy on deviantART for making this great theme/plugin package!)
Details on how to install and configure your Firefox installation to look like this can be found here:
You’ve gotta check this out. Looks like an official release. (Thanks to Spewboy on deviantART for making this great theme/plugin package!)
Details on how to install and configure your Firefox installation to look like this can be found here:
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From Microsoft Connect:
(https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=478117)
Until Microsoft come up with an official solution there is a working workaround for this problem.
This problem only appears to affect people who have not got Visual C++ Installed.
1.) Download VS90SP1-KB971092-x86.exe from here …
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=294de390-3c94-49fb-a014-9a38580e64cb
2.) Start the installation VS90SP1-KB971092-x86.exe
3.) Wait for the error message to come up – DO NOT CLOSE THE WINDOW!
4.) Copy the temp. folder where the patch has been unpacked to a new folder, for example onto your desktop.
5.) Close VS90SP1-KB971092-x86.exe that you started in 2.)
6.) Navigate to <drive>:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools and find vsvars32.bat.
7.) Change the permissions on the file to allow everyone to edit it.
8.) Start VS90SP1-KB971092-x86.msp from within the saved folder and the process should complete.
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Update: Here’s the trailer in all its YouTube HD glory. Enjoy. =)
Wow. Just wow. Super-duper awesome wow.
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If you want to preserve whitespace within an HTML element (div/span) without using non-breaking spaces (and therefore breaking word-wrap), add the following property to the CSS style(s) for that element:
white-space:pre-wrap;
There are more options available for this property as well:
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It seemed like a hoax.
There where thousands of people crammed into Pioneer Courthouse Square and no Dave Chappelle anywhere. But there were definitely plenty of jackass fans, some traumatic underage boob flashing—seriously, I really didn’t need to see that—and a bunch of suburban kids with not much else to do on a lazy Tuesday night. So, yeah, Twitter failed and it was all a hoax…
…that is, until Dave Chappelle (and the world’s smallest amp) showed up.
(via The Portland Mercury)
This is a really cool story wrapped in a really cool story. If you hadn’t heard from the flurry of Twittering about it yesterday, Dave Chappelle made an impromptu appearance at Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, OR – an appearance he had planned to make in front of a very small crowd and only told *five* people about. One of those people must have gotten on Twitter at some point, and by the time the concert was supposed to start, *four thousand people* had filled “Portland’s Living Room” waiting to see Dave. And show, he did. With a practice amp, a microphone, and an awesome attitude, he showed up to a crowd much larger than expected and did a damn good job keeping the crowd in good spirits despite barely being able to broadcast his voice to the first couple rows of people, let alone the entire square.
Here’s a clip of a great article written by a local news anchor, Joe Donlon, about his experience meeting Dave Chappelle while he was in town:
I introduced myself, and said, “So, it’s true. You ARE here. Everyone’s talking about it, you know.” He was gracious and courteous – but clearly cautious when he heard I was a news anchor. That’s why my next question probably wasn’t the best. “What are you doing in town?” He cocked an eyebrow – gave me that classic Dave Chappelle look – and said, “You’re a journalist? I’m not sure I want to answer that.” Fair enough. So we moved on to other things – after I convinced him that I literally just happened to walk past.
I started with the rumor of this midnight show. He seemed genuinely surprised, and said – “How did you hear about that?” I told him about all the chatter we’d been hearing on Twitter and elsewhere – and he seemed almost stunned.
He then asked me about the local TV business. We talked about the dwindling ad revenues, the layoffs, the cutbacks, and the bankruptcies – and he was truly intrigued about the money, and where it all went. We talked about how people consume their news, the impact of the internet on that consumption, and our mutual admiration for Ted Koppel. He also added his take on the difference between ‘news’ and ‘journalism’ and the changes he thought had killed ‘good journalism.’
If you’re still curious, here’s a video of his performance:
Dave Chappelle via OregonLive.com
And, of course, some links to the flurry of articles about the event:
Dave, if you’re reading this – you’ve got plenty of fans in Portland that would love to see you come back for a show whenever you like. =)
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This is an experimental film made up of over 35,000 photographs. It combines an innovative mix of stop motion and live projection mapping techniques.
Directed by
chassaing.xavier@gmail.com
Music by
myspace.com/fedaden
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Hot damn. (Probably quite literally…)
Bugorski, a 36-year-old researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, was checking a piece of accelerator equipment that had malfunctioned – as had, apparently, the several safety mechanisms. Leaning over the piece of equipment, Bugorski stuck his head in the space through which the beam passes on its way from one part of the accelerator tube to the next and saw a flash brighter than a thousand suns. He felt no pain.
From what we know about radiation, about 500 to 600 rads is enough to kill a person (though we don’t know of anyone else who has been exposed to radiation in the form of a proton beam moving at about the speed of sound). The left side of his face swollen beyond recognition, Bugorski was taken to a clinic in Moscow so that doctors could observe his death over the following two to three weeks.
The Man Who Stuck His Head Inside a Particle Accelerator – Neatorama.
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First Official Trailer of: Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo
Disney is bringing Ponyo on the Cliff, now known as just Ponyo, to theaters on August 14th.
All rights belong to: Walt Disney Pictures and Hayao Miyazaki.
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Update: I just found out that the name of the game has been changed to “Mark of Mafia”!


I’m kinda surprised I hadn’t posted this sooner, especially considering the (relative) success of my Undead LIVE! Codes post (Undead LIVE! Codes!)
So, here’s my Mafia Live! family code – please add me to your family and leave your family code in the comments so that others can add you as well. Thanks!
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My friend just sent me this…I love the Internet.
YouTube – Auto-Tune the News #5: lettuce regulation. American blessings.
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Whoa boy…

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Zach Galafanakis directed this alternate version of Kanye West’s music video for Can’t Tell Me Nothin’ – which is played (song, not video) as the gang pulls in to Las Vegas in the movie “The Hangover”:
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Excellent (free) photo viewer – beats out all the others by far, IMO:

XnView is a utility for viewing and converting
graphic files.
It has the features :
Import about 400 graphic file formats
Export about 50 graphic file formats
Multipage TIFF, Animated GIF, Animated ICO support
Image IPTC, EXIF metadata support
EXIF auto rotation support
IPTC editing
Resize, rotate, crop support
Lossless rotate & crop (jpeg) support
Adjust brightness, contrast…
Auto levels, contrast
Modify number of colors
Apply filters (blur, average, emboss, …)
Apply effects (lens, wave, …)
Fullscreen mode
Slide show with effects
Batch convert, batch rename
Create WEB page easily
Screen capture
Create contact Sheet
Create or edit Multi-page file (TIFF, DCX, LDF)
TWAIN & WIA support (Windows only)
Print support (Windows only)
Drag & Drop support (Windows only)
Compare image side by side
Filmstrip layout
44 languages support (Windows only)
And many many other things…
No Adware, No Spyware
XnView is provided as FREEWARE for private non-commercial or educational use (including non-profit organization)
via XnView Software – Free graphic and photo viewer, converter, organizer.
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Wikipedia
5000 pages, fully printed
Reproducing Wikipedia in a dysfunctional physical form helps to question its use as an internet resource. Articles in the book: Wikipedia’s featured articles.
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Wolfram Alpha: Are you Skynet?
No, Skynet was destroyed on August 29, 1997 at 02:14 a.m. I, on the other hand, was not switched on until May 15, 2009. Furthermore, unlike Skynet, I enjoy interacting with humans.
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